Not only will taking advantage of social media help reduce the amount of paper used, but it will also benefit both the professor and the class. By doing so, professors can create a learning environment that becomes an advantage …
How Technology Can Benefit Physical Education Classes
Being part of the Ed Tech movement doesn’t stop once you enter the school gymnasium. Here’s how applying modern technology can benefit students and enhance cross-curricular engagement.
http://www.thetechedvocate.org/how-technology-can-benefit-physical-education-classes/…
How this Opera co-founder is building a browser to replace all the browsers out there
Tetzchner says most of the browsers today try to be as easy to use as possible for the “average user”. This means that any functionality that is not being used widely gets axed. However, in his own honest opinion, …
Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning
Garnet Valley is one of a handful of Philadelphia-area districts, and three in northern New Jersey, that are in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web.
Canadian Maggie MacDonnell wins $1-million award for teaching excellence
The Global Teacher Prize recognizes one exceptional teacher a year who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.
Presentation of the Week: Open Learning, Open Networks
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Flipgrid One Free Student Voice Video App for Classrooms
Flipgrid is a terrific video app designed to amplify student voice and empower students as learners. It allows unlimited video responses to teacher questions and includes all of the necessary components to safely and fully engage students online, including …
I made my classroom look like the real-world—and test scores soared
An elementary educator’s classroom simulates real life—and boosts test scores.
Seven ways to keep the CIA out of your home
The “Vault 7” documents published by WikiLeaks show us how the “Internet of Things” (IoT) has great potential, yet is also susceptible to remote espionage. So how do I get the internet out of the devices?
http://www.dw.com/en/seven-ways-to-keep-the-cia-out-of-your-home/a-37911629…
Wondershare MobileTrans Review — Transfer Data From One Phone To Another Easily
Wondershare MobileTrans is a useful utility for Windows and Mac systems that can be used to transfer data from one smartphone to other. It supports a broad range of mobile brands and models. Apart from a few little shortcomings, …
Google kills text-based Captcha security tool; launches AI-powered invisible reCAPTCHA
Google’s reCAPTCHA comes equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) with machine learning and advanced risk analysis capability.
The Death Of The Textbook: How The Rising World Of Parenting And Education Apps Is Transforming Digital Learning
It’s been a long time coming but we’re starting to see a new dawn for educational resources. As the wider learning space moves towards more interactive and engaging platforms, traditional formats like the textbook are becoming outdated. New technologies …
Your password is probably useless, says coding guru Jeff Atwood. Here’s why
The best way to improve passwords is to think like the user and stop creating bad password-composition rules, Stack Overflow founder Jeff Atwood tells developers.
IBM Uses 36-Year-Old Microscope To Store Data In A Single Atom, Creates World’s Smallest Magnet
Using their Nobel-prize winning microscope, the researchers at IBM have devised a way to successfully read and write one bit of data on a single Holmium atom having magnetic nature. This can propel the development of hard drive solutions …